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Madani Younis launches his first season at The Bush

JBR — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:41:22 +0000

As of October 2011, The Bush Theatre has been extremely fortunate to call The Old Shepherds Bush library its new home. The venue has ample room for a main stage and two further potential studio spaces. It is also full of character. The building feels warm and exciting and it has preserved various characteristics of its former use; bookshelve Read more ...

Fourthwall’s Favourites: February

JBR — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:20:09 +0000

January 2012 has already thrown us some gems – the wonderful Faction Theatre company have been playing their ambitious repertory season to sell-out audiences, The Bee delighted our reviewer at Soho Theatre, Phil Matthews, Fourthwall’s Editorial Director Read more ...

Training: ALRA North launches online TV station

PKM — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:06:43 +0000

ALRA: TV will feature short films which will be written, directed and acted by students of the school.

The project, the first of its kind in the UK, will launch at the end of March and will be available free of charge.

Web services manager Anthony Critchley said: “It’s a chance to get Wigan on the map in terms of its acting Read more ...

Greenwich Playhouse loses home in first casualty of the Olympics?

JBR — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:42:53 +0000

Lord Lloyd Webber is predicting, with Cassandrian delight, a “bloodbath” in London’s West End in summer 2012 as Theatreland lies deserted while we, in droves, are seized by Olympic fervour. With eight months to go it remains to be seen whether his sepulchral pronouncements are proved right, but one theatre at least seems to have already Read more ...

War Horse film drives demand for stage version

PKM — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:46:52 +0000

Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of War Horse has prompted a surge in ticket demand for the theatrical version.
It appears film fans are “cantering” to theatreland to compare the film to the National Theatre production, according to the Europe’s largest ticket operator.

Searches for the show, currently playing at the New L Read more ...

ATG announce launch of Jerry Mitchell Productions

JBR — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Mr & Mrs West End, as Howard Panter & wife Rosemary Squires OBE are affectionately known, were recently named by The Stage as the most influential people in British Theatre. It’s an accolade they have received three times now; as the chief executives of Ambassadors Theatre Group (ATG), owners of thirty-nine UK theatres, and produce Read more ...

The Big Question: Should Creatives Work For Free?

JBR — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:38:02 +0000

Fourthwall editor JBR (pictured below, centre) was joined at The Actors Centre in Spring 2011 by (L-R) Ryan Forde Iosco (actor and Chair of Equity Young Members Committee), James Quaife (producer and proje Read more ...

Winners of The Laurence Olivier Bursary announced

PKM — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:20:42 +0000

Past winners of The Laurence Olivier Bursary include Ewan McGregor and Michael Sheen, and is an award set up by the Society of London Theatre to realize Olivier’s dream of helping young actors with potential.

Each summer SOLT invites the principals of selected drama schools to submit two nominations for the bursary. The nominees should Read more ...

Sky Arts launches search for best amateur theatre company

PKM — Tue, 17 May 2011 09:46:20 +0000

A new television series for Sky Arts is on the lookout for talented community theatre groups in the UK with a real passion for the arts.

Stagestruck will offer one theatre group an extraordinary chance to work with industry professionals from stage and screen, culminating in a performance in a West End theatre.

Producers a Read more ...

Dame Elizabeth Taylor – the last of the old Hollywood legends

PKM — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:46:18 +0000

She’s the Dame, they say, who had everything. “I haven’t had tomorrow” she would retort. Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor dies aged 79.

Taylor was arguably one of our most loved and finest Hollywood movie stars. A double Oscar winner, her most notable films included National Velvet, Cleopatra and Who’s Afraid Read more ...